There is a shadow aout there between the stars. It's a conflict of ideologies, and we are the battlefield. It threatens us in a way never before seen: If we learn more of this ideology, what guarantees that we do not fall for it, assimilate with it and becomes a part of it.

The question is how we will defend ourselves, for the enemy is not of flesh and blood. The enemy is an idea. And ideas are bullet proof.

Tornet mot stjärnorna is a background module to Skymningshem: Andra Imperiet, that divulges some of this games world's oldest and deepest secrets, secrets that run back to the dawn of the First Empire.